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omnipoetics:jung [2025/03/05 23:04] – [On the Psychology of the Trickster Figure] adrianaomnipoetics:jung [2025/03/05 23:25] (current) – [Works Cited] mahrukh
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 The collective unconscious refers to the collective universal patterns, symbols, and archetypes that shared across all of humanity. The universal archetypes present in the collective unconscious manifest themselves through dreams, myths, legends, and storytelling. These manifestations reflect the deeper universal unconscious that connects humans together, regardless of personal experience. In the process of individuation, the individual has to integrate all aspects of the unconscious, including the collective, in order to find harmony with the self.  The collective unconscious refers to the collective universal patterns, symbols, and archetypes that shared across all of humanity. The universal archetypes present in the collective unconscious manifest themselves through dreams, myths, legends, and storytelling. These manifestations reflect the deeper universal unconscious that connects humans together, regardless of personal experience. In the process of individuation, the individual has to integrate all aspects of the unconscious, including the collective, in order to find harmony with the self. 
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 +"...there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consistent of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents...there is good reason for supposing that the archetypes are the unconscious images of the instincts themselves, in other words, that they are patterns of instinctual behaviors. The hypothesis of the collective unconscious is, therefore, no more daring than to assume there are instincts" (Jung 43-44). 
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 This theory of collective unconscious emerged through an extended process of self-experimentation, which resulted in //Liber Novus//, a work of psychology in a literary form.((//The Red Book//p.3)) On the journey of individuation, i.e. the conscious effort to integrate with the unconscious parts of self, individuals go through different levels in the psyche (roughly mapped on the right) to reach the core self. This leads to encounters with archetypes that can at once be both personal and/or collective. This theory of collective unconscious emerged through an extended process of self-experimentation, which resulted in //Liber Novus//, a work of psychology in a literary form.((//The Red Book//p.3)) On the journey of individuation, i.e. the conscious effort to integrate with the unconscious parts of self, individuals go through different levels in the psyche (roughly mapped on the right) to reach the core self. This leads to encounters with archetypes that can at once be both personal and/or collective.
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 In order to become whole, one must learn how to accept the trickster, the shadow self that lies within the individual's unconscious, represented through the collective unconscious.  In order to become whole, one must learn how to accept the trickster, the shadow self that lies within the individual's unconscious, represented through the collective unconscious. 
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 +In his article, Jung traces the trickster archetype emerging in different medieval carnivals and festivals - at times allowed and other times banned - by religious or governing authorities. Yet, he argues, that the trickster cycle (proposed by Radin) is recurrent. By cycle, he compares it to different figures in myths such as spirit Mercurius, who goes through a process of foolish mistakes and becomes a laughing stock, then realization dawns on him, he learns, and becomes wiser. Repeatedly, Jung relates the trickster figure to that of the shadow archetype in psychology, which has most similarities (unconsciousness) but also a few differences ("vanishing level of consciousness" p. 212). 
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 +==== Jung's Critique ====
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 In Paul Radin's //Primitve Man as Philosopher//, he challenges Jung's idea of the primitive. He says that the generally accepted view is one of "an emotionally unintegrated personality," and that Jung approvingly quotes a story about a Bushman that had a son and killed him in a fit of rage after not getting any fish that day,  In Paul Radin's //Primitve Man as Philosopher//, he challenges Jung's idea of the primitive. He says that the generally accepted view is one of "an emotionally unintegrated personality," and that Jung approvingly quotes a story about a Bushman that had a son and killed him in a fit of rage after not getting any fish that day, 
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-C. G. Jung, and Joan Chodorow. Jung on Active Imagination. Princeton University Press, 1997. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=bd928fbc-55e2-3b95-b5b0-34917f90ac3d.+Jung, C.G. and Joan Chodorow. Jung on Active Imagination. Princeton University Press, 1997. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=bd928fbc-55e2-3b95-b5b0-34917f90ac3d. 
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 +Jung, C.G. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Second ed., Princeton University Press, 1969.  
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 +Jung, Carl Gustav (2009). Shamdasani, Sonu (ed.). The Red Book: Liber Novus. Translated by Kyburz, Mark; Peck, John; Shamdasani, Sonu.
  
 Fordham, Frieda, and Michael S.M. Fordham. “Character of His Psychotherapy.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 7 Feb. 2025, www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Jung/Character-of-his-psychotherapy.  Fordham, Frieda, and Michael S.M. Fordham. “Character of His Psychotherapy.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 7 Feb. 2025, www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Jung/Character-of-his-psychotherapy. 
  
-“International Association for Analytical Psychology.” International Association of Analytical Psychology IAAP, iaap.org/jung-analytical-psychology/short-articles-on-analytical-psychology/anima-and-animus-2/. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025. +“International Association for Analytical Psychology.” International Association of Analytical Psychology IAAP, iaap.org/jung-analytical-psychology/short-articles-on-analytical-psychology/anima-and-animus-2/.  
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 +Radin, Paul. Primitive Man as Philosopher. D. Appleton and Company, 1927. 
  
 Rothenberg, Jerome. Revolution of the Word; a New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry, 1914-1945. Seabury Press, 2000.  Rothenberg, Jerome. Revolution of the Word; a New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry, 1914-1945. Seabury Press, 2000. 
  
 “Steps of the Individuation Process.” Steps of the Individuation Process, CarlJung.net, www.carl-jung.net/individuation_steps.html. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.  “Steps of the Individuation Process.” Steps of the Individuation Process, CarlJung.net, www.carl-jung.net/individuation_steps.html. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025. 

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